Psychiatrist-narcologist Alexander Kovtun on Radio 1 commented According to Rosstat data, the number of citizens addicted to alcohol is higher in Russia. According to him, this fact shows that the identities of these people have not been determined before.
“This is not a disease that develops immediately, but rather one that develops slowly over many years. “If it was detected last year, this is evidence that 70-80 percent of what was not detected in previous years,” he said.
He added that the statistics do not reflect the whole picture as they only take into account data from public clinics. At the same time, according to him, many people turn to private health institutions with this problem.
On January 15, Kommersant newspaper cited Rosstat data reportedIt was stated that the number of cases of alcohol addiction among citizens began to increase for the first time in ten years in the Russian Federation.
According to the Ministry’s data, it was determined that 54.2 thousand people were diagnosed with clinical alcohol addiction for the first time in 2022. Until 2021, the number of people with this addiction was decreasing in the country, but in 2022 there was a change in this dynamic.
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